Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
Mr. Carter might have remembered, too__hough he did not__hat the Bible speaks of wicked men who prosper in the world and increase in riches; and of those who are poor in this world, but rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to them that love Him. And he might have learned from this that his prosperity was no sure proof that God was pleased with him.
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Mr. Carter might have remembered, too__hough he did not__hat the Bible speaks of wicked men who prosper in the world and increase in riches; and of those who are poor in this world, but rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to them that love Him. And he might have learned from this that his prosperity was no sure proof that God was pleased with him.
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